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Example sentences for "liquorice"

Lexicographically close words:
liquidity; liquids; liquified; liquor; liquored; liquoring; liquorish; liquors; lira; liras
  1. The salicine may be given dissolved in milk or enclosed in wafers; the salicylate of soda, in a solution of any aromatic water, to which extract of liquorice or syrup of lemon and a few drops of spirits of chloroform may be added.

  2. Take then of Spanish liquorice one ounce; and dissolve it also in double its weight of water; and grind up with it an ounce of ivory black.

  3. On the upper part of the beach, liquorice grew in great abundance and it was now in blossom.

  4. For the last two or three days we had eaten the liquorice root, of which there is a great abundance on the banks of the river.

  5. You must boil the root of a plant called merilian, and you must pour the water into juniper-berry juice, and then you will have a liquorice that is so sweet and good that it will even cure a toothache.

  6. Yes, it is liquorice that bites," said she, and she wiped her tongue on her sleeve.

  7. They never wanted to taste such liquorice again in their lives, so they assured him.

  8. Give a teaspoonful of liquorice mixture (see Constipation) thrice a day before meals in a little hot water.

  9. A teaspoonful of boiled liquorice and linseed two or three times a day has a good effect.

  10. This may be done by means of liquorice and senna mixture, and strict attention to diet and exercise.

  11. Take a teacupful of hot water twenty minutes before meals, and the liquorice mixture (see Constipation) after meals.

  12. To help her restoration, whether she ceases to nurse or not, use the following mixture and treatment: Boil a stick of best liquorice for half-an-hour in a quart of good soft water.

  13. Let the patient take twice a-day, for eight days, a teaspoonful of well-boiled liquorice and a tablespoonful of hot water.

  14. A slight admixture of pure CANE SYRUP (see) or liquorice juice in the water will tend to prevent bile and costiveness.

  15. In the evening of the fourth day an ordinary dose of liquorice powder is given to move the bowels.

  16. My boot was eased and thoroughly oiled; if liquorice could have done it any good, we could have applied it in addition to the other remedies, as we had bought some both for our own use and for our friends to eat when we reached home.

  17. The reedy marshes, the haunts of pelicans and pigs, are left behind at Aimarah, and tamarisk scrub and liquorice appear on the banks.

  18. You may take it with a Liquorice stick, or add an ounce of it or more to the Pectoral Decoction.

  19. If you take it as a preparative for an emetic, take half an ounce of it when you go to bed the night before you intend it to operate, it will work the easier, but if for any of the foregoing occasions, take it with a liquorice stick.

  20. This Syrup was composed against coughs, shortness of breath, and other the like infirmities of the breast proceeding of cold, for which (if you can get it) you may take it with a Liquorice stick.

  21. Presently he appeared to grow easier, and as he did not for some time again refer to the liquorice sticks, Bill was pleased to think that he had been successful in directing the old boy's thoughts into another channel.

  22. I must have some of those liquorice sticks.

  23. The old King at last realised that the Killgruel liquorice was not for him, so he offered no serious objections when Bill, early next morning, gave the necessary orders to pack up and prepare for the march, which they now resumed.

  24. Make into forty pills, thickening the mass, if necessary, with a little powdered liquorice or ginger.

  25. Mix well and make into twenty pills, adding a little powdered liquorice root, or any other innocent powder, if necessary, to thicken the mass.

  26. Take powdered elecampane root, powdered liquorice root, powdered anise seed, and sulphur, of each one dram.

  27. Simple decoction of elm bark, 8 pints; liquorice root, sassafras and guaiacum chips, of each 1 oz.

  28. Honey and a strong infusion of liquorice boiled to a proper consistence.

  29. For internal use, an equal weight of liquorice root (sliced) is commonly added.

  30. Hufeland recommends the addition of a little liquorice root.

  31. Black pepper and liquorice root, of each 1/2 oz.

  32. Macerate the liquorice with two pints of water for twelve hours, strain, and press; again macerate the pressed marc with the remainder of the water for six hours, strain, and press.

  33. As the last, but using liquorice powder instead of elecampane, and at once making a confection.

  34. Hard pills, weighing 15 grammes, of irregular shape and unequal size, composed of aloes with 1/3 of gentian, and covered with a brown powder containing liquorice root.

  35. Take of powered extract of liquorice 2 drms, gum acacia 2 drms, hot water 4 oz.

  36. Constant white and a little carmine, shaded with Spanish liquorice washed with carmine.

  37. Mesopotamia:--The British storm Turkish trenches west of Kut and capture the 'Liquorice Factory.

  38. Yes, although the medicine was only liquorice water mixed up with other harmless filth.

  39. Liquorice enters into the composition of many cough lozenges and other demulcent preparations; and in the form of aromatic syrups and elixirs it has a remarkable effect in masking the taste of nauseous medicines.

  40. And, lastly, the liquorice dance, which expresses an extraordinary contempt for that foodstuff.

  41. XIII My little boy has got a rival, whose name is Henrik, a popinjay who not only is six years old, but has an unlimited supply of liquorice at his disposal.

  42. Take of senna leaves six drachms, bruised ginger half a drachm, sliced liquorice root four drachms, Epsom salts two and a half ounces, boiling water half an imperial pint.

  43. Liquorice Liquorice is an agreeable demulcent, and is given in the form of decoction in catarrh, and some forms of dyspepsia, and the extract is used in catarrh.

  44. Boil the water, with the figs and liquorice added, until it is reduced to one half; then press out and strain the liquor.

  45. Scammony, however, is a costly drug, and therefore the caution given with reference to German liquorice powder applies here also.

  46. One piece of liquorice will demoralize a whole class.

  47. They will chew anything from a piece of India rubber shoe to slippery elm and liquorice root.

  48. Dicky answered us at once, though his mouth was full of bread with liquorice stuck in it to look like cake.

  49. Good bye, Jack; I must go and look after Tom, he's swallowed a whole yard of stick-liquorice by this time.

  50. The doctor is very inconsiderate; he forgets that Tom's regard for liquorice is quite as strong as his own liking for a cigar.

  51. Why, I'll tell you, the liquorice is all gone, and he won't order any more.

  52. I observe no difference between the liquorice of this country and that common to many parts of the United states where it is also sometimes cultivated in our gardens.

  53. Chinnooks made us a present of a rute boiled much resembling the common liquorice in taste and Size; in return for this root we gave more than double the value to Satisfy their craveing dispostn.


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